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Duo WAS hen sheleft her vilage
in Tibet to attend boarding schoo
Her family had been trying to secure this
‘opportunity for her ever since she began
hhereducation, They believed that studing
inna mote prosperous par of China would
sive hera brighter future. Yet when the mo
‘ment came f0 say goodbye. they could not
bear tosendher ff So Mekduo, witha suit
case bigger than herself went fo the rail.
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‘Meiduo (not her real name) is one of
‘more thang.o00 children from Tibet Who
Innvetaken part in a scheme known 38 in
and classes or reidiban. Setup in 985, it
offers selected students places at sevond
ary schools in pats of China inhabited by
the country’s Han majority. There are doz
‘eas of shoals scattered oter more than 20
Provinces that accept such children from
Tibet including some ofan ethnicty.1n
2000 the offer was extende to children in
‘iniiang a Western region bordering bet
‘witha large population of mostly Muslim
Uighus. Since then more than 100,000
students from Xinjiang have attended nei